Tom H. C. Anderson - Next Gen Market Research

Tom H. C. Anderson Joining Merlien Institute Advisory Board

I am pleased to announce today that I have accepted an invitation to join the Advisory Board of Merlien Institute.
Merlien Institute is a progressive, global organization which dedicated to the advancement of qualitative research in academia, business and policy environments. Given my keen interest in text analytics [...]

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2010 Market Research Conference & Event Updates
I’ve been a bit lax about updating various conferences and events I’ve been speaking at recently. Therefore thought I would briefly list a couple that have just been planned.
Additionally I’ve been asked to help with the Merlien Institute annual qualitative research conference (focused on mobile), including helping to encourage [...]

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This Thursday I look forward to delivering the Key Note at The BAQMaR 2009 Conference in Belgium. The event will take place at the Ghent Marriott.
The 2009 BAQMaR Conference is an annual event that brings together industry executives in the field of quantitative (i.e. traditional marketing research and data mining) and qualitative marketing research. The [...]

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Earlier this week I spoke to two graduate level classes in public relations at Iona College. The students were wonderful and had some great questions after my talk.
One thing I thought was a bit unusual was that 90% of the students were women. The professor told me that this ratio isn’t all that uncommon in [...]

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What Can be Learned From Netflix Crowd Sourcing Experiment?

Monday Belkor’s Pragmatic Chaos was awarded the $1,000,000 Netflix prize after a 3 year global competition to improve Netflix’s movie picking model. Interestingly, team Belkor led by AT&T Research engineers, in the end was actually a merger of three previously separate teams from the US, Austria, Canada [...]

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